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SpaceX Sets Feb. 24th Target Date For Next Launch
Rei writes: After some consternation about the pacing of Falcon 9 upgrades, SpaceX has announced that it plans to launch again from Cape Canaveral with a target date of February 24th. While the primary mission will be to place the SES-9 communications satellite in orbit, this will also mark their fourth attempt to land the first stage on an autonomous drone ship, after their last launch touched down softly but fell over when one leg failed to latch. SpaceX is working to significantly accelerate the rate of production and launches — they are reportedly moving the factory from 6-8 cores produced per year to 18 at present, and expect to reach 30 by the end of the year. After the upcoming launch, they expect to launch one rocket every two to three weeks.
It seems since our new Slashlords have taken over there have only been 1 in 10 stores about the great Elon. WTF Timmy? Work harder.
Yeah! And let's stop those repetitive posting about Linux altogether, we have enough of them already! /sarcasm
More seriously though, why are you complaining? A quick search of the tag "x elonmusk" show about 1 story per week. Furthermore, I'm very interested to follow those space launch and rocket engineering kinda fall into the spirit of /. afaik.
Elok
Not seeing the connection. Somebody's going to be launching satellites either way, whether it's SpaceX or a competitor.
Not that I am at all opposed to more satellite launches, but... how can you possibly believe that SpaceX increasing the global supply of (relatively) cheap rocket launches won't affect the quantity of stuff launched into orbit?
This is like, economics 101 - when supply goes up and prices go down, demand increases in response.